USDA MyPlate Protein Foods Group – One of the Five Food Groups (2024)

Meats

1 ounce cooked lean beef, goat, ham, lamb, or pork

1 ounce cooked lean ground beef or pork

1 slice of luncheon or deli meats (beef, chicken, ham, pork, turkey)

1 ounce cooked game meats (bear, bison, deer, elk, moose, opossum, rabbit, venison)

1 ounce cooked organ meats

Poultry

1 ounce cooked (without skin) chicken, ostrich, or turkey

2 ounces cooked Cornish hen, duck, goose, pheasant, or quail

1 sandwich slice of turkey or chicken breast (4½" x 2½" x ⅛")

Seafood

1 ounce cooked finfish (black sea bass, catfish, cod, flounder, freshwater trout, haddock, hake, halibut, herring, light tuna, mackerel, mullet, perch, pollock, salmon, sea bass, snapper, sole, tilapia, whiting)

1 ounce cooked shellfish (clams, crab, crayfish, lobster, mussels, octopus, oysters, scallops, shrimp, squid (calamari)

1 ounce canned fish (anchovies, freshwater trout, herring, light tuna, salmon, sardines)

Eggs

1 egg

1 ½ egg whites (or 3 tablespoons liquid egg white product)

Nuts, seeds, and soy products

½ ounce of nuts (12 almonds, 24 pistachios, 7 walnut halves)

½ ounce of seeds (chia, flax, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, or squash seeds) hulled, roasted

1 tablespoon of almond, cashew, peanut, or sunflower butter, or sesame paste (tahini)

¼ cup (about 2 ounces) of tofu

1 ounce tempeh, cooked

Beans, peas, and lentils

¼ cup of cooked beans, peas or lentils (such as bayo, black, brown, fava, garbanzo, kidney, lima, mung, navy, pigeon, pink, pinto, or soy, or white beans, or black-eyed peas (cow peas) or split peas, and red, brown, and green lentils)

¼ cup of baked beans or refried beans

1 falafel patty (2 ¼", 4 oz)

6 tablespoons hummus

USDA MyPlate Protein Foods Group – One of the Five Food Groups (2024)
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